Its theme's rank, 14 days: 12 on the Codex sheet
19 people reported
All time, since Sep 22, including 7 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Turns end before work finishes
Turns end after one intermediate step, such as a checkpoint, partial edits or a passing test, though no blocker or permission denial was identified.
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Turns end early while authorized work remains unfinished.
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- Agent turn execution
- Versions
- 0.159.1 to 26.1027.51404
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Part of: Agent stops turn before finishing3 bugs
- Agent stops before work is done15 people
- Turn ends after commentary2 people
Not quite your bug?
- Goal drift in long tasks6 people
- False completion reports6 people
Original reports13, newest first
- "Lazy" Sol 6.1On GitHub#59269
- Codex Windows Desktop prematurely terminates long autonomous runs despite remaining actionable workOn GitHub#59094
- Codex automation incident reportOn GitHub#58605
- Work/Codex (desktop): GPT‑6.1 Terra (Medium) interrompe execução contínua e exige prompts de “pode continuar” repetidamente (mesmo com “Approve for me”).On GitHub#58114
- Codex Desktop repeatedly ends multi-step implementation tasks prematurelyOn GitHub#58041
- Codex Desktop repeatedly ends turn after partial progress despite actionable work remaining (macOS, fresh session reproduced)On GitHub#57843
- Codex ends turns after review/checkpoint milestones while explicitly acknowledging unfinished work (Windows, 0.164.0)On GitHub#56951
- Codex 0.159.1 ends an unfinished task immediately after promising to finish, with zero tool callsOn GitHub#55503
- [Harness / GPT-6 Astra] Explicit criteria fail to govern scope and continuation after a GPT-5.6-era harness migrationOn GitHub#52345
- Codex Desktop ends correction turns with unexecuted final promises; next-day admission confirms omissionOn GitHub#51988
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- Codex Desktop repeatedly terminates multi-step implementation turns after one intermediate subtask despite explicit continuation/acceptance criteriaOn GitHub#49390
- Codex Desktop ends unfinished long-running work after a small partial checkpointOn GitHub#48677
- Repeated scope failures in real Codex projectsOn the forum#1399757